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  • 'FACT' teams aim to keep people with mental illness out of jail

    September 18, 2019 |

    MPR News |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team tackles one of the toughest challenges at the intersection of mental health and criminal justice: how to help people whose mental illness has landed them in criminal trouble, without resorting to jail or brief hospitalizations. A Rochester, New York, program that showed promise in improving those odds by connecting people with needed services is now being replicated in Hennepin County, Minnesota. So far, about half of the 60 people in the program returned to jail. So it's only working for some people.

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  • States Lack Standards for Treating Opioid Dependent Pregnant Women -- Experts Say That's Ok

    September 18, 2019 |

    West Virginia Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    States typically do no employ an exact protocol for treating opioid-dependent pregnant women, but several states including Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are working on addressing this gap in health care. Although each approach is fairly limited at this time, efforts to increase education amongst health care providers in order to reduce stigma and offering medication-assisted treatment, are practices that are still showing some promise.

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  • HIV advocacy group pioneers telehealth model in rural Alabama

    September 18, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Selma, Alabama

    What started out as a private phone line in a person's house to talk to people suffering from HIV/AIDS has now turned into a mobile e-health clinic that provides both education and medical support. The Medical Advocacy and Outreach Selma clinic aims to eliminate barriers, such as geographical location and stigma, for those with HIV/AIDS while also acting as a touchpoint for those with other primary and mental health care needs.

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  • This East Tenn. Program Aims to Stop NAS by Reaching Women Behind Bars

    September 17, 2019 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    In Tennessee, health officials are fighting against the the opioid epidemic by educating opioid-affected pregnant women about neonatal abstinence syndrome. Although several approaches have been implemented, the Voluntary Reversible Long Acting Contraceptive Jail Initiative specifically provides resources to incarcerated women since studies show "women serving time in jails face a high risk of giving birth to a baby with NAS."

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  • With Kids' Futures at Risk, Schools Seek New Ways to Lower Chronic Absenteeism

    September 17, 2019 |

    Oklahoma Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Spurred by state changes, an elementary in Tulsa, Oklahoma has transformed its approach to chronic absenteeism, adding frequent positive reinforcements for good attendance and building strong relationships with students to get to the root of attendance issues. “This is a solvable problem as long as people keep in mind," the executive director of Attendance Works said. "The solutions take time to unpack and address what’s keeping kids from coming to school.”

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  • The Library That's Also an Art Gallery

    September 17, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Public libraries can serve as vital community resources. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Forsyth County Public Library operates as a multi-use facility thanks to investments from a voter-approved bond and state grants. In addition to meeting rooms and computer labs, the library provides peer-support specialists trained in assisting homeless patrons with mental health counseling and job services. Health clinics and other community partners also participate in initiatives housed at the library.

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  • Access to medical care is difficult for the rural uninsured. This clinic comes to them.

    September 16, 2019 |

    Chattanooga Times Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Knoxville, Tennessee

    The St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic is a mobile health clinic bringing care to uninsured, rural residents in Tennessee. The initiative has reached nearly 250 people since it started, providing care to six different towns once per month. With the costs of health care without insurance being enough to turn people away from seeking it, this clinic provides medical evaluations, medicine, and lab work – all with the hope of rebuilding trust between communities and the healthcare system.

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  • Bright spot: High schools that offer free mental health care

    September 14, 2019 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    In Oregon's Multnomah County, high schools provide school-based mental health care centers, which include access to an overall health assessment, a mental health counselor, and a behavioral health specialist at no out-of-pocket cost. One benefit of this program is that students who are visiting the center for a physical reason – such as headaches – have the opportunity to have potential underlying conditions that are related to mental health recognized.

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  • When care matches culture, immigrants and people of color benefit

    September 13, 2019 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    In the Twin Cities area, community mental health and wellness professionals have made it a priority to develop a pipeline of clinicians of color and create programming specific to residents of cultural and ethnic minority groups who may have experienced unique traumas. How can Minnesota's model inform Oregon's approach to mental health care in a state whose population is growing more diverse?

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  • Minneapolis schools lead the way on youth mental wellness

    September 12, 2019 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Now 15 years old, Minneapolis' school-based mental health care program, which includes full-time therapists in school, has won national recognition. Could Oregon pull off a similar model?

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